Evaluation of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and MALDI BioTyper in comparison to 16S rDNA sequencing for the identification of bacteria isolated from Arctic sea water

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Timperio, Anna Maria, Gorrasi, Susanna, Zolla, Lello, Fenice, Massimiliano
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Kandalaksha; White Sea
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524297/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28738078; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181860

MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in association with the MALDI BioTyper 3.1 software has been evaluated for the identification and classification of 45 Arctic bacteria isolated from Kandalaksha Bay (White Sea, Russia). The high reliability of this method has been already demonstrated, in clinical microbi...